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"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it." »Milan Kundera
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"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency." »Alan Turing
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"People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." »Gary Zukav
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"Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves." »Jim Webb
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"For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork." »Neil Gershenfeld
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"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." »Yasutani Roshi
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"The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see." »Kedar Joshi
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"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them." »Bertrand Russell
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society." »Richard Royster
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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." »Heinrich Heine
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"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling." »Thomas Hardy
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"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species." »Dalai Lama, The Times (1999)
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"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." »Albert Camus
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"All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut." »Louis Booker Wright
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"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." »John F. Kennedy
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"It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - sweet fundamental things such as love." »Laura Ingalls Wilder
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." »Sister Mary Rose McGeady
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"Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence." »Sun-Tzu
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"The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will." »Ferdinand Foch
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"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open." »Clive
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"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey
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"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." »Betty Naomi Friedan
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"Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray." »Doug Hall
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"The three fundamental Rules of Robotics...One: a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm...Two:..a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law...Three: a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws." »Isaac Asimov
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